A noteworthy weakness of this assignment design, highlighted by Dr. Sherwood during our in-class preview, is that because the remixes are crafted from published works, I could not share the resulting student projects beyond the immediate class. In the short term (this fall), I don’t have a ready alternative to circumvent this admitted flaw, but in the long-term I believe there are some strong avenues to pursue in eliminating this shortfall. Because I teach a creative writing course in the spring, I could harvest student-written stories from the short fiction unit for remix purposes. I suspect that my aspiring creative writers would consider such a request a complement and be enthusiastic about their efforts finding a second life in a later class project. Another alternative is to consider remixing documents that fall within the public domain, whether that means significantly older texts or fairy tales/fables that students could consider without a distinct “original.” Embracing these or other alternatives would improve the project because the results could be more readily shared with other students and teachers considering the potential for Twine as a resource for literature.
A noteworthy weakness of this assignment design, highlighted by Dr. Sherwood during our in-class preview, is that because the remixes are crafted from published works, I could not share the resulting student projects beyond the immediate class. In the short term (this fall), I don’t have a ready alternative to circumvent this admitted flaw, but in the long-term I believe there are some strong avenues to pursue in eliminating this shortfall. Because I teach a creative writing course in the spring, I could harvest student-written stories from the short fiction unit for remix purposes. I suspect that my aspiring creative writers would consider such a request a complement and be enthusiastic about their efforts finding a second life in a later class project. Another alternative is to consider remixing documents that fall within the public domain, whether that means significantly older texts or fairy tales/fables that students could consider without a distinct “original.” Embracing these or other alternatives would improve the project because the results could be more readily shared with other students and teachers considering the potential for Twine as a resource for literature.